My Windows Media Player Pauses A lot when I watch movies!!!!!

[WeaponX]

Whenever I try to watch any movies on my Windows Media Player, the movie will pause after every few seconds. It is extremly annoying and often prevents me from watching any of my movies. I have Windows Media Player 7.1 and Win2K. Somebody please help me!!!!:(

[minoukat]

Try downloading the new version (if there is !). Do you download anything, or the movie itself while you watch what's downloaded ?

[Oni]

Uninstall 7 and go back to 6. 6 is better anyways.

[JigPu]

The only reasons I can think of media player doing this are:

a) You are viewing a streaming movie off the net
b) You are running something CPU intensive in the background

If you are streaming and this is happening, then your modem isn't fast enough to get data before media player uses it all.
If that isn't the case, then something is sucking up your CPU time, and media player can't update its display with the limited CPU time it will get. Close down everything (except explorer and systray) though ctrl+alt+del, and see if it still skips like mad.

If it still skips, then I'm truly lost... Someone will need to throw out another idea.

JigPu

[Ebola]

wait now when i had a celeron 400 it could not play all movie files correctly. you machine could be too slow.

[touser]

i had this same problem with my media player and never did get it fixed, i found that if you just search www.download.com for a new player that you will find some good ones..i did and they played the same movies with no problems :)

[WeaponX]

I have a 1.4 ghz TBird and 448 MB of RAM, I'm sure that my computer is fast enough and I have enough RAM.

[Smizack]

Originally posted by WeaponX
I have a 1.4 ghz TBird and 448 MB of RAM, I'm sure that my computer is fast enough and I have enough RAM.

Are you using DSL or a modem? I'm using a modem and if I stream it pauses either because the playing speed caught up with the download point, or it's a .Ram file. They seem to stream poorly on a modem to begin with.

[WeaponX]

All of the movies I try to watch are already downloaded onto my computer. So I know it has nothing to do with streaming.

[dmc]

try decreasing virtual memory. it will force your system to use ram which is much faster than writing back to the harddrive. in win 2k you cant go below about 20mb without getting an error message when windows boots up but in 98 I believe you can just turn it off.
I did this to all my machines and it helped. Good luck

Derek